With the hand-over of power to the Iraqi government, if one does not consider the coalition forces to be continuing parties to the conflict in Iraq, but that their soldiers are sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces ( APGC77 Art 47. f ), then, unless U. S. citizens working as armed guards are lawfully certified residents of Iraq, i. e., a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict ( APGC77 Art 47. d ), and they are involved with a fire-fight in the continuing conflict, they are mercenary soldiers.

Another source claims label management joined RIAA in order to get certified sales awards ( i. e., official " Gold " or " Platinum " record status ) for releases.

The album is currently certified Platinum by the BPI and, according to the biography on the official site, has sold over two million copies around the world.

A formal legal challenge to the certified vote could not be filed until the official Ohio certification, which made it official that Bush could expect 286 electoral votes, to Kerry's 252 electoral votes.

The official copies of laws were certified by attaching seals ( sigilla ) as means of authentication.

* The official Iyengar website ( Includes biography and a worldwide directory of certified teachers ).

A wrestler must normally have his weight assessed by a member of the institution's athletics medical staff ( e. g. a physician, certified athletic trainer, or registered dietician ) before the first official team practice.

Soon after the group had established their own record label, G-Unit Records, G-Unit released their first official group album Beg for Mercy in November 2003, which went on to be certified double platinum.

Due to the small margin of victory being, the Puerto Rican electoral laws state that a recount must be performed, and that once this recount is finished, the official winner will be certified by the CEE-PUR.

Many people confuse chronograph with a chronometer, but in order to be labeled a chronometer the watch must be certified by the COSC, the official Swiss Chronometer testing institute.

He said that the government makes a person feel small because it doesn't matter what you say, if it's not on paper and certified by an official, the government doesn't care.

In 2002, the zoo became a certified Botanical Gardens and the official name of the institution was changed to the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

The habitat can be certified by the NWF as an official Certified Wildlife Habitat site if these elements are provided.

As of September 2012 the official register has over 20, 000 certified individuals.

Instead, the premises licence holder must secure that the official summary of the licence ( or a certified copy ) is prominently displayed at the premises, as well as the name and position of any person nominated as the custodian of the summary premises licence.

The National Reporter System is now the dominant unofficial reporter system in the U. S., and some smaller states have discontinued their own official reporters and certified the appropriate West regional reporter as their official reporter.

On May 18, 1992, in his official capacity as Archivist, he officially certified the ratification of the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution and on May 19, 1992, printed it in the Federal Register, together with the certificate of ratification.

According to the American Association of School Librarians ( AASL ), a division of the American Library Association ( ALA ), the official title for a certified librarian who works in a school in the United States is school librarian.

* 1981: Bellevue is certified as an official heart station for cardiac emergencies.

On 31 March 2006, it became official that, after just three weeks of sales, " Under the Surface " became a certified gold record in Norway, selling over 20, 000 copies.

He was an official in the Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1935 to 1945 and, being certified medically unfit for military service in World War II, he served as a Manchester City Councillor from 1941 to 1945.

To obtain a passport for travel abroad, a monk must have an official letter from Sangha Supreme Council granting the applicant permission to travel abroad ; Buddhist monk identification card ; a copy of House / Temple Registration ; and submit any previous Thai Passport or a certified copy thereof.

Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U. S. radio show for children, the Quiz Kids, five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

Chronicles was formerly presumed to represent the source-material whence Samuel and Kings were composed ; that is, the kings ' official Day-Books, much like the U. S. Congressional Record of modern times.

: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

After tensions with the U. S. government came to a head in 1890, the church officially abandoned the public practice of polygamy in the United States, and eventually stopped performing official polygamous marriages altogether after a Second Manifesto in 1904.

* Ready. gov-The official preparedness site of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security

The U. S. Secretary of State is analogous to the foreign minister of other nations and is the official charged with state-to-state diplomacy, although the president has ultimate authority over foreign policy ; that policy includes defining the national interest, as well as the strategies chosen both to safeguard that and to achieve its policy goals.

# the Bayfront Expressway, a limited-access road linking to U. S. 101 at Marsh Road, Atherton ( the official routing of SR 84 )

He is not included in any official U. S. government list of Presidents.

Dignity and Respect, the U. S. Army's 2001 training guide on the homosexual conduct policy, gave official guidelines on what can be considered credible information of someone's homosexuality.

This marked the official end of dragoons in the U. S. Army, although certain modern units trace their origins back to the historic dragoon regiments.

On January 9, 2000, the administration of President Jamil Mahuad announced its intention to adopt the U. S. dollar as the official currency of Ecuador to address the ongoing economic crisis.

This is explained largely by emigration and economic stability achieved after adopting the U. S dollar as official means of transaction.

The official federal government of the United States | U. S. government position on extraterrestrial life, and the three major efforts in the search for it: 1.

In September 2010, it was reported that the U. N. General Assembly had appointed Mazlan Othman as their official extraterrestrial liaison by the UK paper The Sunday Times.

Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions.

* To provide financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions, including playing a major role in operating the nation's payments system

Total official development assistance from all sources was more than $ 100 million in 2001, with nearly 90 % of that total coming from the U. S.

On one occasion, the use of the word niggardly led to the resignation of a U. S. public official because it sounded similar to the word nigger, despite the two words being unrelated etymologically ).

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

The Cuban government says this was only done because of " confusion " in the heady early days of the revolution, while the U. S. government maintains that the cashing constitutes an official validation of the treaty.

As a vanguard of the official U. N. force, a force of about 1, 000 U. S. Marines arrived in Haiti within the day, and Canadian and French troops arrived the next morning ; the United Nations indicated it would send a team to assess the situation within days.

Hoosier () is the official demonym for a resident of the U. S. state of Indiana.